Visual Studio 2005 tricks, where are they?
Posted on November 14th, 2007
I hope you’re still not using Visual Studio 2003, if you are you need to get another job :) I want to talk about the hidden powers of VS 2005. Every now and then we get a good blog posting from someone at MS with tips on how to increase performance or do this or that.
Has anyone ever seen a site or even a single book dedicated to the things we “need” to know about VS but don’t. The only books I can find are general “using vs” kind of books but nothing for the more advanced developer.
Maybe we should put our heads together and write one? I’m giving it some serious thought and might kick off a page on this blog for gathering tips and tricks and then compile that into a PDF for us all to use.
Feel free to post your best tips in the comments.
-c
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Quick performance tip for VS 2005
Posted on November 6th, 2007
As I’m sure we all know Visual Studio 2005 as great as it is isn’t the fastest application on the planet. The good news is there are a multitude of things we can change to speed it up. Now firstly let me just state that I’m not a fan of just linking to other people’s blogs or regurgitating their information however I have posted the links to Scott Guthrie’s blog below for reference.
The tip I wanted to add was a really quick and easy performance boost for Laptops. I guess you could also apply this to a desktop using the same logic. As you will see below having the OS on one hard drive and apps on another drive gives a huge performance increase in VS but what if your system is already setup? I had this issue with my laptop. The easy fix is to add a second drive to your laptop and move the OS paging file over to this drive. I also moved the SQL databases to this drive since that is easy enough. I noticed a remarkable improvement in visual studio performance and I didn’t have to go through the headache of moving source code, IIS settings or VSS settings. The paging file is the biggest one by far.
Scott’s Links for VS performance tuning:
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